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The Posters That Went to War · The Home Front
We Have Just Begun to Fight
Unknown (the NARA record names no artist) · Office of War Information, OWI Poster No. 62, 1941–1945
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A poster issued as OWI Poster No. 62, held by the National Archives in its World War II Posters series as 44-PA-85, dated between 1941 and 1945.
Why it matters
The Office of War Information ran from June 1942 to September 1945, carrying the battlefront to civilians by radio, newspapers, posters, photographs and film, and it numbered this sheet 62.
What to notice
The imprint, OWI Poster No. 62, and the title's word just, which places the reader at the start of a long war.
A long war, admitted in its first lines.
Provenance
- School
- The Second World War Poster (United States and the world)
- Designer
- Unknown (the NARA record names no artist)
- Format
- Political poster
- Poster published
- Office of War Information, OWI Poster No. 62, 1941–1945
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Posters series (NAID 513546, local id 44-PA-85), NARA scan via DPLA and Wikimedia Commons · NARA NAID 513546 · 44-PA-85
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. government work (the WPA Federal Art Project, the wartime agencies), any year. Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-02. National Archives catalogue re-read 2026-11-02 (NAID 513546, 44-PA-85): use restriction Unrestricted, access Unrestricted.
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